Pinging a wordpress.com blog with a dedicated .com domain

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  brevitas · Member · Jun 5, 2013 at 2:21 pm

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  I have a two-week old poetry blog on WordPress.com for which I recently obtained a dedicated .com address.

  I want to use ping-o-matic to ensure it is pinged to a variety of destinations including Google.

  My perception is that my .com blog is still a sub-domain of WordPress.com and all I am paying for is the aesthetic appearance of a dedicated.com address.

  I believe my .com blog is still on the WordPress.com server and all that happens is that WordPress redirects to my .com address.

  So, what url should I be entering on ping-o-matic?

  poetryandshortfiction.com
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  poetryandshortfiction.wordpress.com

  Thanks for your help

  A happy WordPress.com user,

  Dennis Mellersh

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 5, 2013 at 3:00 pm

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  Pingomatic is built into all WordPress.COM blogs (actually all WordPress software – both .COM & .ORG) – so nothing for you to do – your blog is already calling the search engines

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  brevitas · Member · Jun 5, 2013 at 4:30 pm

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  Thank-you for the clarification.

  I was not sure if I had had to do the pinging myself now that the blog has a dedicated .com domain.

  Dennis